Associate Professor Roman Ivanovitch’s article “Mozart’s Art of Retransition” recently appeared in Music Analysis (Vol. 30/1, 2011).

On November 30, 2011, Professor Emeritus Lewis Rowell presented a colloquium, “Reflections on Tuning: Remarks, Opinions, and Sound Bites from a Skeptic,” at the music department of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Professor Emeritus Lewis Rowell presented two invited talks at Princeton University on March 28: a workshop on “The Origins and Evolution of the South Indian Tala System” and a colloquium on “Tribal Musics of India.” On April 13 the I.U. Symphony Orchestra will perform his Overture to “The Eumenides” under the direction  of David Effron.

Rowell is Professor Emeritus of Music (Theory), Ethnomusicology, and India Studies.

As part of one of its training sessions for graduate student instructors (associate instructors or AIs), the music theory department in the Jacobs School of Music offered a workshop on Classroom Assessment Techniques (informally, CATS), classroom strategies that allow instructors to check student learning and permit students to monitor their own comprehension. See Thomas Angelo and K. Patricia Cross, Classroom Assessment Techniques A Handbook for College Teachers (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993) for more information.  Read more >>

Associate Dean Mary Wennerstrom was on the panel “Tenure and the Musical Scholar: Philosophical and Practical Issues” at the SMT/AMS convention in November. It was sponsored by the SMT Professional Development Committee, the AMS Committee on Membership and Professional Development, and Scholars for Social Responsibility. The panel also included Patrick McCreless, Cristle Collins Judd, Karen A. Faaborg, and Don Randel.

Professor Robert Hatten gave one of the keynote addresses, “A Discourse on Musical Values,” at the 11^th International Congress on Musical Signification in Kraków, Poland, Sept. 27-Oct.2. At the SMT/AMS conference in Indianapolis (Nov. 4-7) he gave an SMT paper and performance, “Performing Expressive Closure in Structurally Open Contexts: Chopin’s Prelude in A Minor and the Last Dance of Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze.” He also chaired a four-paper AMS session, “Close Readings.” For the Semiotic Society of America conference in Louisville, Oct. 21-24, he chaired and presented a paper for a session he organized on interpreting the multimedial artwork of Terry Prewitt.

Assistant Professor Blair Johnston delivered a paper, “Rachmaninoff’s ‘Fantastic’ Phrygian Symphony,” at the November 2010 annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Indianapolis, Ind.